Chapter 16

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I'm so sorry for not uploading for a bit over a week! I got sick (and I still am) and my birthday was the other day and I've been tied down with homework. So, there are my excuses, but I'm shoving all that aside to write another chapter. This story IS getting more popular by the chapter, and I'm crossing my fingers that eventually it'll be on the What's Hot List! So, yes, I'm going to say this, advertise this story to anyone you think will like it! Maybe get some more reads and such (: Anyway, here you go.

Chapter 16~

(Ainsley's PoV)

I glared daggers of hatred at Geek, who was still convulsing from holding in his laughter, and got up to answer my phone.

"Hello?" I asked, a little bit of annoyance seeping into my voice.

"Hi, honey! We finished the benefit, but the storm caused the roads to flood so we're going to be stuck here for a little while, and I don't know when we're going to be home. I'm hoping we'll be there no later than ten. Will you be okay on your own until then?" My mom's voice sounded. I sagged in the relief of knowing she and the rest of my family were all right.

"Uhm, yeah. I'll be fine," I laughed reassuringly. She hmm-ed.

"Ainsley, I know how much you hate storms. Remember how you used to crawl into our bed at night when you were younger? How are you really doing?" she asked, concern in her voice. I blinked rapidly as tears formed, choking up at the motherly tone she was using. Ever since Seneva had been born, most of the attention was focused on her. I didn't mind because she usually needed it more than I did, but now that I remembered what if felt like to have my mom as my best friend who knew everything about me and wasn't too preoccupied to make sure I was doing all right, it made me want to cry.

"Yeah," I coughed out. I felt Geek's eyes on me in a curious manner. "I'm fine. Nothing happened when you were gone, I just watched some movies and ate popcorn."

"That reminds me! I rented a movie for us to watch when I get home, Seneva's going to Harley and Daniel's tomorrow night," she announced cheerfully. I looked up at the ceiling and swiped under my eyes with my index fingers.

"Sounds cool. What movie?"

"It's a suuuurpriiise," she said liltingly. "Anyway, I have to go now, your father and I have to go have a talk with... sweetheart, what's his name again?"

"Larry Waltman," my dad answered faintly.

"Right. Anywho, I love you honey. Be safe!"

"Love you too, Mom," I whispered. She hung up and I pressed 'End', sliding the phone into my pocket. I took a deep breath and blinked quickly to repress them, before turning to Geek with a small smirk.

"Nothing to worry about, it was just my-"

"Mom?" he guessed. "I could tell." I arched a brow at his tone, struggling not to give in and check out his abdominal muscles, and went over to him and lay back down in my spot.

"What about your family?" I asked in a sigh, the still-stormy weather outside dampening my mood.

"Um... my dad is a, uh... business analyst. My mom is a... a baker! Yes, and um, my dog is a Dalmatian," he finished.

"That's... interesting." I managed to answer. A crack of thunder made me flinch and clutch a blanket to my face.

"You're really scared of storms, aren't you?" Geek asked tentatively.

"No," I lied, my voice muffled by the blanket.

"Why do you keep lying?" he asked, persistently.

"I'm not lying!" I snapped.

"Yes you are. You know what I think?" Geek asked.

"No, I don't, and I don't care either."

"I think you're afraid of being vulnerable," he ignored me.

"I am not!"

"Yeah, I think you are. You put on this tough girl facade because people think you really are tough to the bone, but you're not. Sure, you are to some extent, but you're still a girl," Geek continued rambling as my psychologist.

"You know what I think?" I shot back. "I think that you are an unbearable, nosy-"

Geek rolled over and hovered above me, his eyebrow raised. I bit my tongue and clenched my fists, demanding myself not to lose it just because he was shirtless and had the upper half of a Greek god.

"Cocky, annoying-"

A slow smirk spread across his mouth as he fixed his brown eyes on my blue ones. My eyes widened when he lowered himself down onto his elbows. Heat radiated off of his bare torso.

"Weird, awkward-" I cleared my throat, my heart hammering for some unexplainable reason. His proximity was unnerving.

"Geek." I finished.

"That's what you think of me?" Geek asked, his smirk growing bigger. I gulped and nodded, trying to move my face away from his when I felt his breath brush my skin.

"Well, I happen to think you are impatient, stubborn, witty, obnoxious-"

"Hey!" I protested, frowning. He flashed me a quick smile before continuing.

"Confident, secretly aching for romance-" My eyes accidentally dropped down to his lips.

"You don't know anything about m-"

"Smart, funny, caring girl that any guy would be lucky enough to ha-" Geek was cut off when a phone rang. We both froze, yet again, only this time it wasn't my phone. When Geek made no move, I spoke.

"You gonna get that?" He sighed and pulled his phone out of his pocket.

"Perfect timing," he muttered under his breath. As he was sliding it open, I finally regained control of my senses and began to push him away. Seemingly without a second's thought, Geek pinned one of my wrists to the ground and straddled my hips, all while reading whatever was on his phone.

"What the hell!" I spluttered, trying to kick him off.

"Oh shit," he breathed. At the tone of his voice, I stopped struggling. This was the tone I had grown to hate. It was the oh-crap-something-bad-just-happened-here-we-go voice.

"What?" I whispered. Geek swallowed, frowning, and shoved the phone back in his pocket.

"Nothing." I grabbed his bare arm and pulled him closer.

"What?" I repeated myself, glaring at him.

"It's nothing you need to worry about. But, um, I have to go now."

"What?! No! I can't... you can't!" I stuttered, now paranoid of being in my own house alone.

"Your parents are coming home tonight, right? The stalker is gone, Ainsley. You'll be fine," Geek rushed out. He jumped up and started gathering his stuff. I jumped up too, and ran over to him, right before he sprinted out the door.

"Wait a minute!" I demanded his attention. He paused for a millisecond.

"Where are you going?"

"I... have to go to a lunch with my... err... boss."

"You have a job?" I asked dubiously. He snorted.

"Yes, yes I do. And now I have to go and meet up for lunch," he said, getting antsy.

"Take me with you," I demanded.

"Wha-"

"Take. Me. With. You," I repeated slowly.

"Why would I-"

"It's formal attire, right? Stay here."

And with that I ran upstairs to get ready for lunch with Geek.

~

(Geek's PoV)

Whoa. My heart was still beating furiously from the intense moment Ainsley and I had just had. When I was talking to her, telling her some of the things I thought she was, she actually seemed to be listening to me. And the fact that she hadn't pushed me away until we were interrupted made me want to perform my victory dance.

But that dance would have to be put on hold, because a certain headstrong redhead just invited herself to a lunch with a CIA agent and an informer.

"How long are you going to be?" I called, as she dashed up the stairs.

"Just a minute! Don't you dare think of stepping out the front door, or so help me-" The rest of her sentence was lost as I heard her footsteps race across the hall and a door slam shut. Quick as a flash, I re-read my text.

Call me back ASAP. I got a new scoop on his whereabouts. Meet me at Swing in half an hour.

I dialed rapidly, knowing that I'd be lucky if he answered.

"This is David at Hotel Serenity, how may I help you?"

"Carl, really? That's your cover up?"

"Shut up and listen," Carl demanded. "A disturbance was detected in the lab on the computers earlier today. We found them."

I almost swallowed my tongue at this news.

"Really?" I asked hoarsely. This was big. This was bigger than big. This was what I had been ready to devote my life to, before I found-

Ainsley rushed down the stairs in a slightly-higher-than-the-knee midnight blue dress that had one strap and was pinned to her shoulder with a silver flower. A silvery sheen reflected off of the silk skirt of the dress when light shone upon it. Her flaming red hair streamed behind her in wavy wisps, making me grow hot all over.

"Okay, I'm ready. I don't want to be here alone," she explained as she all but grabbed my arm, opened the door, dragged us outside, locked it, opened up an umbrella to protect us from the rain, and began hauling me to my car. I gently eased myself out of her grasp and started coughing.

"What's your problem?" she demanded, tapping her silver-heel-clad foot and crossing her arms, her white designer jacket in her hands.

"Nate?" Carl asked from the phone. Ainsley whipped around and stared at me with those piercing sky blue eyes, tilting her head in curiosity at my phone.

"I gotta go, I'm assuming you're the one I'm meeting?"

"Got that right, I was the first notified of this."

"I'm bringing someone."

"Are you craz-" I hung up and slid my phone in my pocket, shivering as I zipped up my jacket.

"Who was that?" Ainsley asked absentmindedly, trying not to step in mud.

"No one important. We have to make a pitstop."

"Where?"

"My house."

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